Sometime in Mid-April, 2017, the Department of Justice removed the “Immigration Judge Bench Book” from the internet. Why? They won’t say. We’ve been trying to figure that out and to reconstruct this book as a resource for practitioners. For...

Here’s something fun. Today I received in the mail a response to several FOIA requests I had made. The package contained two previously secret litigation “field guides” for Department of Justice attorneys. I’ll be receiving more and will post...

In litigation over whether the Department of Homeland Security complied with its obligations under the FOIA, the Seventh Circuit this week found that the agency had fallen short in David Rubman v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services et al. The effect of this...

Everyone knows a job is much easier with the right tools. Right? It’s no different with immigration. In immigration court cases, sometimes the biggest hurdles can be cleared by figuring out the right tools to solve the problem. In almost every case an early...